Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: Banskia men. Peter Bernhardt is a fan, one of the saviours of the house Nutcote where ...

More so than in any other country, our orchids are deceitful temptresses, with powerful perfume and come-hither good looks. A LONE WASP PICKS up on an exciting scent. Instantly he zigzags, following ...

When you consider how easy orchids are to grow well, however, and the myriad colours, shapes and fragrances with which they flower, it is easy to appreciate their appeal. As the shortest day of the ...

Normally, when an insect lands on a flower, there’s a fair exchange of goods and services. The bug gets a slurp of delicious, nutritious nectar, and the plant gets the pollen that the bug was carrying ...

Heidi Zimmer works for the Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research, a joint venture between Parks Australia's Australian National Botanic Gardens and the National Research Collections ...

The world's most mysterious and elusive orchid lives underground in Australia. Scientists are trying to rescue this botanic marvel from going completely extinct. As a child, Kingsley Dixon's favourite ...

Ryan Phillips received funding from the Australian Research Council to study the evolution and conservation of sexually deceptive orchids. Orchids are famed for their beautiful and alluring flowers – ...

GERALD McCraith was a man of his time, and his time lasted 100 years. A century in which he operated perhaps the most successful rabbit export trade in Australia and played a leading role in the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Leek orchids are a group of small, native wildflowers found in bushlands across southern Australia. Of the 140-odd leek orchids known today, ...

Describe cymbidium orchids: They’re popular and showy orchids with long, strappy leaves that are fairly easy to grow in the southern half of Australia. Cymbidiums begin flowering in May, so you’ll see ...

THE part of this beautiful and instructive work which has just reached us contains ten plates, illustrations of sixteen species belonging to the genera Prasophyllum, Thelymitra, Sarcochilus, ...